Full Time Job
Software Development Engineer - Front End
Discovery
- Paid
- Full Time
- Executive (10+ years) Experience
Job Description
OverviewCompany Overview
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
About WBD Streaming
Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery's continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.
Meet Our Team:
The Content Distribution Engineering team builds the applications and services that power WBD's content distribution supply chain.
Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal WBD users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and onto our DTC platforms. We need a development leader who is comfortable turning product requirements into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components. The SDE III needs to be both a strong individual contributor in coding and a thought leader for the development team.
This position comes to our organization at a pivotal moment in our organization. Both the legacy Discovery and Warner companies that make up WBD built industry-leading supply chain orchestration solutions. Now we must take the best parts of our architecture and the lessons that both teams learned while building them and form a new combined central supply chain for content distribution.
Responsibilities
What you'll do:
• Serve as a design leader for our Content Distribution(CD) products. You'll work across multiple software teams to design and build CD products and systems.
• Develop services and microservices that enhance the capabilities of the supply chain systems at WBD
• Guide and mentor growing teams of developers
• Write design and architecture documents that align and unify the team, bringing fellow engineers together around your ideas.
• Review code from other developers in the team
• Troubleshoot problems within the supply chain system, working with our support teams, fellow developers, and leadership to resolve any issues within WBD's supply chain orchestration.
• You play a leadership role in your area. You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering specializations
• You have a platform-wide view of the solutions that you build, and you consistently think in terms of architecture
• You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You have built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing.
• Your team trusts your decisions, designs, and code.
• You provide mentoring to other engineers.
• You can describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.
• You offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.
Qualifications
• You have 10 - 15 years of experience with software development and architecture. You are proficient with technologies on our stack including Java (Spring), NodeJS, and Python and can lead and teach others about how and when to use these technologies
• You have experience building and architecting event-driven systems
• You have a proven track record of designing and building applications for media workflows, media catalogs, and asset registries. You have a background building software for M&E, and have a keen understanding of both the problem space and the available solutions
• You are a full-stack developer, comfortable with both back-end services and front-end UI development.
• You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
• You have a history of solving business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
• You have experience building up and teaching developers and leading teams by example
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in New York City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $134,330 -$249,470 salary per year.
Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
Discovery requires vaccination for employment consideration, except where prohibited by law. Discovery will consider requests for exemption from this requirement upon an offer of employment. Employees with approved exemptions due to health or religious reasons must abide by weekly rigorous COVID-19 testing protocols.
Discovery Communications, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to all local Fair Chance Ordinances.
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Discovery, Inc. is the global leader in real life entertainment. We serve passionate fans with content that inspires, informs, and entertains, providing leadership across deeply loved and trusted brands, such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel.